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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=NathanBacaABC7][quote=Anonymous]Having been on a charter board, I can bear witness that the pressure to use all of these consultants and pay their outrageous fees is insidious and intense. Without paying for FOCUS, your application is unlikely to get approved. If you try to secure a building without Building Hope, Building Hope may actually try to interfere with your lease, so that you have to go through them - and pay their high fees. As a new school, the PCSB pressures you to use FOCUS/TenSquare as consultants - and pay their outrageous fees, even though you are not a failing school, just a new school. All of these fees do not result in better outcomes for students, bleed schools dry, and ultimately line the pockets of  Tom Porter et al - whose children are all in private schools, not within DC public schools.

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Let's meet for coffee and talk. You can reach me at 703-328-1276. You can remain anonymous if you prefer. I'm very interested in airing more stories on how charter schools operate.[/quote]

Building Hope helped my school. As a new school we didn't have the financial history to take on a lease or buy a building by ourselves. Plus we were growing a grade at a time and didn't have full enrollment to pay for a full lease. That was a few years ago so I don't know what their deals are like now. Of course, my school's interaction with Building Hope doesn't make a good news story.[/quote]

Similar experience.  Never saw them "interfering with your lease", whatever that means.[/quote]

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